This is being written with deep pain and anguish over an incident that shaken me a lot. The incident has happened on the night of 8th March 2011 by about 9.15pm IST near Calicut Airport Junction, in NH 212. The sorry state of the incident is that myself and a friend were passing by that area just minutes after that incident took place.
A KSRTC bus has hit a motorcycle head on and killed the rider on the spot. The body of the diseased has been thrown into the drainage line by the side. The bus driver was trying to overtake some other vehicle without giving any consideration to the commuter from the opposite side. This narration itself is painful as the commotion it caused to the family and the community around him is too sorrowful.
Leave that story there. We continued the journey without knowing the gravity of the incident at that time as the Police was present there and they were not allowing anybody to stop there despite an inner call to me to stop and see what had happened (this haunts me too much). A car over taken us after few minutes, and I had just took a snap of the rear of the car in my memory, possibly due an intuition. We were traveling on course to Kozhikode Town through Ramanattukara-Malaparamba Bye-Pass. After crossing Pantheerankavu Junction we had found the same car on the wrong side (Right) of the road, stumbled on the reflector stones and the crowd there told that this car hit a motorcyclist and thrown the two-wheeler out to the depth nearby in the Left side. Rider was saved his life with minor to major injuries.
Being daily commuter on motorcycle for about 65km to-and fro I came across many accident scenes.
The rashness of the drivers in Kerala is horrible and once they are behind the wheels or the handle all feel that its their own world and none has space in front of them. Let it be Tipper driver, bus driver, car driver or even a motorcyclist, no change in the above attitude. Being a Keralite, I feel ashamed to say that my fellow beings dont have any cocnern about their fellow human beings atleast when they are behind the wheels or handle bars. They speed up to reach fast in the existing single line non-divider national highways, where buses are blowing horns and putting high beam in day time to intimidate you to give way to those speeding monsters. These all things are happening in front of the police.
There is a 24hr signal at Thondayadu junction, still accidents are happening there either due to the lack of awarenessa bout traffic signals or due to the rash driving. None get penalised for traffic lapses properly. Even law enforcement agencies jump the yellow signal.
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